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Smartphone Operating Systems: A Developer's Perspective

By Tom Thompson, March 30, 2009

For developers, the battle lines are forming in the smartphone wars

SDK and Application Store Fact Sheet

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Table 1: Application stores

Tom Thompson is the head of Proactive Support for embedded products at Freescale Semiconductor. He can be reached at tom_thompson@lycos.com. The views stated in this article are the author's, and don't necessarily represent Freescale's positions, strategies, or opinions.

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